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Fast Friday with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (and P. Diddy.

Roundtable Talk

Diddy) Posted on July 30, 2010 by LeaderTalker | 2 Comments As regular blog followers will remember, last week I saw Zappos.com’s head happiness spreader, Tony Hsieh , talk about his team’s winning formula for business success. Hsieh credited P. When it comes to long-term career happiness, money and titles wear off pretty quickly.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Although big, global supply chains certainly have their own dynamism, they mostly evolve incrementally through minnovation rather than disruption – and thus get short shrift in the business media and amongst aspiring entrepreneurs, hungry to create successful ventures. The challenge is to cast off the handcuffs while keeping the gold.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. ’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. Communications. Companies come and go.